INFORMATION  ON  THE  RESULTS  OF  PRELIMINARY  STUDY  OF  THE  BLACK  BALL  AS  A  POSSIBLE  EXTRATERRESTRIAL  ARTIFACT

V. N. Fomenko

9 pages, 1 table, 5 photographs, 2 schemes, 7 references.
Here are some excerpts  from the paper and an illustration.
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Fig. 4. An X-ray photograph of the Ball

        The Black Ball was investigated on the initiative of  I. G. Petrovskaya (Institute for Space Studies of the USSR Academy of sciences), with active cooperation of  D. A. Menkov (Moscow Physical Engineering Institute), by V. N. Fomenko, a senior research fellow at the “Soyuz” Scientific and Industrial Association.

        As far as is known, the Black Ball was found in 1975 in West Ukraine in a clay quarry at a depth of about 8 meters. The age of the clay layer is of the order of 10 million years.

        It was discovered by an excavator who noticed the unusually regular shape of the Ball. When he struck it against the edge of a bucket, the Ball did not split, but a piece broke away, exposing a black glass-like substance. The worker took the thing home and gave it to his son, a schoolboy, from whom it was taken to the local museum of regional studies by a school teacher. <...>

        The supposed extraterrestrial origin of the Ball dictated extreme caution in the studies. The desire to protect the Ball from damage and keep it suitable for further studies made researchers develop a programme of investigations using only nondestructive methods.

        A large programme of study of the Ball was planned. It was expected that the data resulting from these investigations would allow to propose well-grounded hypotheses on the properties and the structure of the Ball and corroborate or reject the supposition of its extraterrestrial origin. In the case of corroboration of the Ball's extraterrestrial origin these investigations could provide grounds for a programme of further studies. 
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4. Conclusions and some suggestions

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        2. X-ray studies of the Ball discovered within it a core occupying a quarter of its volume. The core's height measures exactly half the length of the Ball's axis of symmetry, and its diameter exactly 3/4 of the axis' length.
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        5. Density of the Ball's core was determined using such measurable characteristics of the Ball as its weight, coordinates of the Ball's and core's contours (taken from an X-ray photograph), and the location of the Ball's center of gravity. The result was, however, very unexpected: the core had the property of antigravity, its density being minus 4.58 g/cm³. The shell weighs 981 g, the core minus 364 g, the Ball as a whole 617 g. The Ball's volume is 320 cm³, and its average density 1.93 g/cm³.

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